The Building of Sam Houston State University

Jackson House

1600 Avenue I
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Timeline

1956

Constructed as Rachel Jackson House [1]
Unit A (A-6) Tex-41-CH-31 [1,2]

Namesake

Rachel Jackson

Architect

Unknown

Contractor(s)

Unknown

A view of the path 17th Street would take were it not interrupted by the houses on Sorority Hill. The northern edge of the Parking Garage looms over the "rear entrance" of Jackson House. And it being the weekend after everyone left for Spring Break, the trash receptacle is over-flowing with goodies.

A 2009 photograph reveals this house, too, received a new door since we'd last been on campus.

Signage out front the building.

Sources

[1] Minutes from the Board of Regents; February 28, 1958
[2] SHSC Revenue Bond Buildings (c.1965)

Jackson House a two-story student residence located north of 17th Street and between Avenues I and J.

Residence Life classifies this small house as being part of "Sorority Hill."

Of the eight houses on the Sorority Hill, only Jackson and Shaver houses appear to have never housed a sorority or changed names since its construction.